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  Create a quote with your team. Be ready to share with class.  DEVELOPMENT From your view, is the world's population growing too fast or too slowly? Why? How  could the rapid growth affect the world we live in?  Does that rapid growth affect people in any way? If yes, how? If no, why?   VOCABULARY Answer: What is your goal in life? In your answers, include words from HERE and HERE .  Listen to your classmates, ask them at least one questoion about the goal they mentioned.  Example: "My goal is to have great aspirations in life and to have my priorities straight, which will let me live happily."  Question: What would you need to achieve that?   VOCABULARY PRACTICE   In groups, work on the advantages and disadvantages of altruism and volunteering.  Present good arguments for both sides. At the end, choose the side that you feel more identified with.    If someone wanted to work with international d...

  How high would you rate your stress levels right now? Use the following image as a guide.  Your opinion about stress... "I have changed my mind about stress, and today I want to change yours"   Vocabulary Spin the wheel and try to use the word you get in one question that is related with the topic of "embracing stress". Ask your classmate that question and try to relate it the topic of the unit. Choose a role to answer: A counselor helping students A psychologist (stress specialist) A work environment specialist  A student who has experienced lots of stress Focus on the stress students might feel, discuss with your group: What would be the best way for a student to deal with their stress? What coping mechanisms can you think of? Make a list with positive and negative ways one can choose to manage and reduce stress. Be ready to share with the class.    Is it natural to feel stress? Explain To which extent is stress considered no...

  What are your  habits when it comes to saving money?  Is it important for you to save up money every month? Explain What do you save money for?   Grammar Intro Work on the activity the teacher has. Make as many new combinations as possible.  What is the name of those verb combinations? Grammar Overview  Which is correct? She got on the bus.  She got the bus on.     Work on THIS link to find out more examples like this.     What would a monthly budget include for you? Make a budget with the essential things a person with an average salary has to include.  Share your budget with a classmate.  Include in it the following phrasal verbs: put asside - bring in - do wothout - look into - find out - thin over - spread out - set asside - give up - give away       Main Activity  St A:    a costumer in need of help.       |         S...

  WARM UP: Adverb list: Very | Slightly | Somewhat | Fairly | Slightly | Completely | Not very | Extremely | Really  Storytelling  Follow the story that your teacher began. Each student has to come up with a way to continue with the story.  "Yesterday, I was sitting in my living room, watching some TV, and then..." Read the information on page 26. Do exercise 2.  Work on THIS exercise with your classmates in break out rooms.    Analyze the following sentences with your classmates: -  Sara was going to buy tickets for the play, but they were sold out.  -  Mike was on the verge of buying the book, and then he realized it was in Portuguese. He does not speak Portuguese! - JK Rowling had no idea that his books would become such an iconic magical universe.  -  Experts knew the book was to become such a hit.  Which ones did happen? Which ones did not? Future in the past  Practice: Work on exercises 3-4...

  Adverbs of degree  Organize the adverbs on page 23, exercise 13, and try to put them in the level of degree they belong to, based on your opinion.   Find extra practice HERE Practice In the following activity, spin the first wheel to get an adverb, then, depending on the adverb you get, choose the wheel for gradable or ungradable adjectives and make a sentence about a book, movie, or documentary using the adverb and the adjective.  Ask your classmates what their think about what you said. Eg: I think Avengers Endgame is a really sad movie.  What do you think?     Adverbs: Gradable adjectives: Ungradable adjectives: Do exercise 14 from the book.  Can a book show you the world? How?     Main Activity Teens Advanced Book Club  The class is putting up a book club. Each of you will think about a book you like. Prepare a mini presentation (2-3 minutes), where you talk about: - The general plot of the book...